Toby "shinerrr" Joyce won the last showdown hand of the previous level against chip leader Mark "Beanboozled" Herm and the American then lost another pot to Maksim "MAX FOMIN" Fomin which was even bigger.

Fomin limp-called a raise to 720,000 out of the small blind and check-called 524,724 on the flop. Fomin check-raised the turn and jammed, Herm forfeited a bet of 1.68 million.